The Government of India has unveiled an updated Defence Procurement Procedure-2020 (DPP-2020) — the procurement manual that governs the purchase of weapons and equipment from the defence capital budget. DPP-2020, which is still in draft form, aims to promote higher indigenous content in defence equipment manufactured in India, including under licence from foreign vendors. DPP-2020 proposes to raise by 10 per cent the indigenous content stipulated in the current procedure, DPP-2016, for various categories of procurement.

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